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KANSAS. 



RESOLUTIONS 



STATE OF RHODE ISLAND AJND PROVIDENCE 
PLANTATIONS, 



INSTRUCTING 



Their senators and requesting their representatives to vote against the 
admission of Kansas into the Union as a State under the Lecompton 
constitution. 



Febrcart 15, 1858. — Ordered to be printed. 



STATE OF RHODE ISLAND AND PROVIDENCE PLANTATIONS, 
JANUARY, A. D. 1&')8. 

Resolved, That our senators in Congress be instructed, and our rep- 
resentatives be requested, to vote against the admission of Kansas into 
the Union under the Lecompton constitution. 

Resolved, That the secretary of state be, and he hereby is, instructed 
to transmit a copy of the above resolution to each of the members of 
Congress from this State immediately after its passage. 



I certify the above to be a true copy of resolutions passed by the 
general assembly. 

JAMES R. BARTLETT, 

Secretary of State. 



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